Julie Hess ❄️

these kids are alright 🥹

I have a PhD in political science from Oxford, focused on US foreign policy; worked as a State Dept. official in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East; and wrote a celebrated foreign policy book taught at universities like Princeton. That's why I get geopolitical questions.

@Tazerface16 Musk is not only not an engineer, he's an idiot.

@Tazerface16 Honest question because I’m afraid of that for the first time since the 80’s…do you think the military would follow those orders? There is a part of me that thinks they wouldn’t

I'm pretty sure that Trump won't use a nuke. But being only "pretty sure" is what keeps me up at night.

@TheDemocrats if you allow NATO to be destroyed, you will be as guilty as those who support potus…worse. They believe him and you know the truth and do NOTHING. Try. At least TRY

@GeauxGabrielle Ok, that makes sense. My daughter attends LSU, but I’ve never lived in LA. The homeowners insurance situation is absolutely awful. Hang in there. Have you gotten some quotes to have a better idea on firm numbers? I just know how expensive renting is (living it now)…

I have the cash for a downpayment now but Im WAY too shook to buy especially in Louisiana where the homeowner’s insurance crisis is DECIMATING the state. People are literally being pushed out of the state because they cant afford their homes because of insurance companies

@GeauxGabrielle If you have the cash now for a down payment, I would consider looking now

I’m just praying that the economy holds on until I can buy my first property in 2027. I finally have an 800+ credit score. I am a year away from being completely debt free. Im throwing everything I got at my student loans and Ive diversified my income. All when the whole country is collapsing

We’ve published the 23,000-word transcript of my @nytimes colleagues' interview with President Trump and opened it for reader comments this morning. We’ve written stories off the interview but also think it's important for readers to see the president's words for themselves.

@elonmusk Interesting person to comment on fraud…

Wow, Frey is super deep in the fraud

@otokyo__ @InterestingSci1 56+30=86-1=85 56+29=85

Indulge me please, I am trying to check something

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him. By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him. Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life. The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see. A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened? Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured. George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined. If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation. You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet. But it’s there. And it matters more than you know. Merry Christmas, friends. 🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️

Immigrants who showed up to their citizenship ceremony had their naturalization cancelled at the ceremony. I can’t begin to describe the rage I feel after reading this.

ATTN: Warriors. Are you man enough to take the fall for Pete Hegseth?

@JohnCornyn Keep your coattails tied to Trump…great strategy…#pedopresidenttrump #maga #RepublicanShutdown

Delay thanks to #SchumerShutdown

Julie is the reason all this is happening and coming out! Thank you Julie:)

@GeauxGabrielle My Dad too…Boomers came in like locusts

“It is why he had a compulsive need to always claim he had the tallest buildings; from the phantom floors on Trump Tower to his boast in the moments after two hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center that he had the tallest building in lower Manhattan now. When his fellow citizens were caught in the fiery remains of the Twin Towers, placing last calls to loved ones in the face of unspeakable shock and horror, or leaping to their deaths for one last breath of fresh air and the hopes their families would at least have the closure of identifiable remains to bury, Trump was only thinking about himself. He could only proffer the same insecure and awful boasts he had always perpetuated. On the campaign trail, years later, he added a fictitious, Islamophobic slur about Muslims rejoicing on rooftops in Jersey City. That 9/11 interview should have been the end of his public life right then and there but in many way it was just the beginning. NBC offered him a contract just three years later and the modern remake of this country’s worst real estate developer began. Now Trump has set his sights on the world beyond - we would all be wise to revisit his track record and that of his family for clues as to what’s to come.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasler…

@grok who started the Ukraine war?

@0liviajulianna I’m consistently amazed by you and the other young people being so willing to fight for our democracy. Keep ignoring them and doing what you know is right. You are a beautiful young woman, and I for one and very proud of your activism.

If you think this is actually a threat then have them come arrest me. I said what I said.